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  1. Re:How to find out who owns the code. on Who Owns Source Code When a Company Folds? · · Score: 1

    Post it to slashdot, usenet, and anywhere else as anonymous coward from an internet cafe in Burma, then see what happens.

  2. Re:Packaging and Installation on What's Missing from Free Software? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Source distribution should be optional

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    Source distribution is optional, as long as you distribute it for cost if requested. Theres tons of OSS which is one downloadable file. Mozilla, for example, or even rpm's and debs.

  3. Re:Slightly Off-Topic: I'd be happy if... on Microsoft to do for Usenet what it did for Email & The Web? · · Score: 1

    Depends on the server on how long they keep messages, but google et. al. keeps them forever. Theres an FAQ somewhere on google groups about deleting old messages. Of course, other people that post your address (in replies - "Foo Bar (f@b.com) wrote in message 'Monkey'...")

  4. Re:Slightly Off-Topic: I'd be happy if... on Microsoft to do for Usenet what it did for Email & The Web? · · Score: 1

    Its there for a few days, maybe a couple of weeks, but then the news hosts delete them. Google (and possibly others) archive every message without an "X-NoArchive" (Or similar?) header.

  5. Re:imminent death of usenet predicted on Microsoft to do for Usenet what it did for Email & The Web? · · Score: 1

    *senet is dying!

  6. Re:Slightly Off-Topic: I'd be happy if... on Microsoft to do for Usenet what it did for Email & The Web? · · Score: 1

    when I post to usenet, I use "usenet@mydomain", and filter away. I get a lot more spam to my normal email account (god knows how they got the address)

  7. Boddies on Beer Added To The Food Pyramid · · Score: 1

    How the hell can you "crack open" a boddies? It's designed to be drunk from a tap (via a glass if you please).

  8. Re:My Suggestions on Required Tools for PC Repair? · · Score: 1

    Slight overkill, depends on how much you use it I guess, and where you do the fixing. Most of us have time to take the box home, where we already have pretty much everything there. If you are doing onsite repairs, you need everything on hand or in the car.

    I'd include a crossover cable too, and any slow laptop (P166 etc) which is powerful enough to run a post 97 os should be useful, even if the battery's gone (testing network for example). An AGP card might be useful to check the slot works, and a USB device (camera or something). If you have one, a working ISA card for those old PC's.

  9. Re:Totally on the mark on Science and Math For Adults? · · Score: 1

    An oddly shaped object that looks like a art-deco running shoe?

    How. I understand the area under a graph is the intergral of the formula of the graph, but if you have an everyday shape, chances are its not created by a known mathematical formula. how do you work out the area using calculus?

  10. Re:Government-controlled media on Low-power FM Transmitters Banned in UK · · Score: 1


    It's the same in Germany. I call this TV/radio license thing THEFT.


    So do I, its exactly the same as a tax. I pay tax which funds schools, yet I dont use schools. I have no choice but to pay that tax. Taxes are theft.

    However If you are a left wing knumbskull that thinks taxes are right, and not theft, they you cant call a tv license theft.

  11. Re:How will they enforce? on Low-power FM Transmitters Banned in UK · · Score: 1

    Ahh, but think of the advantage next time some twat with overpowered speakers drives past playing "BOOM BOOM BOOM". You could broadcast classic fm :D

    Seriously, the transmitter shouldn't affect you if its used properly. 87.5-88 Mhz is rarely used, and theres only 3 stations between 88Mhz and 94Mhz (frequencies vary accross the country). Also I've never tuned into anything above 107.5Mhz. Finding an unused part of the spectrum shouldnt be too hard if everyone played nice. If everyone didnt play nice though...

  12. Re:How will they enforce? on Low-power FM Transmitters Banned in UK · · Score: 2, Funny

    Murder and stuff on the high seas is piracy, and thats how I always read it. If a news article mentions piracay and doesnt mention the sea, I'll ignore it as innacurate rubbish

  13. Re:Government-controlled media on Low-power FM Transmitters Banned in UK · · Score: 1

    eg. a detuned TV used for watching pre-recorded video cassetes or closed circuit televison would not require one

    When exclusivly used for watch CCTV/DVD's etc. Indeed, a tuned TV used in that matter is also fine without a license, however I'm not sure where the burden of proof comes in.


    A televison monitor (not necessarily with a UHF tuner) connected to a satellite receiver pointing at a satellite which is not uplinked to from the UK and used for watching, say, high quality Swedish erotica would still require one.


    That's not how I understand the wireless telegraphy act (AFAIK it only applies to signals broadcast from the UK), however IANAL, or a UK resident.

  14. Re:Government-controlled media on Low-power FM Transmitters Banned in UK · · Score: 2, Informative

    Common mistake. In the UK if you operate a TV set or other device which recieves and decodes TV signals Orignating from the UK you have to have a TV licence.

    The money raised from the TV License goes to several areas, including the running of BBC TV and Radio, subsidising public service broadcasts on other channels (Channel 4), and running TVL.

  15. Re:Also "to cheap"... on Last Chance for Slashdot T-Shirt Contest · · Score: 1

    Your knew hear arnt yuo?

  16. Re:2.6.0-test1 was really boring on New Testing Version Of Linux 2.6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    obviously you never did an "apt-get remove libc6" when you came home drunk one night.

  17. Re:More good news... on Gates: Microsoft IP Finds Its Way Into Free Software · · Score: 1

    this was intended to by funny

    Score:5, Informative

    Sorry dude, I guess theres a lot of desperate geeks arround :D

  18. Re:What's so bad on Greece Warned Over Games Ban · · Score: 3, Funny

    And it doesn't matter what country you live in!

    I live in Greece, your point is flawed

  19. Re:Is it just me... on Greece Warned Over Games Ban · · Score: 1

    To be fair to the Greeks, the spotters had been warned several times at previous airports, ignored massive signs in their language not to take pictures, ignored verbal warnings, and were taking pictures of military airports.

  20. Re:Received the Update Notification and Fixed on DirectX Flaw Leaves Windows Vulnerable · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, nice system, but why is this unusual enough to be modded up? I'd guess any OS worth its salt would have the option of auto-updating with the latest security patches. My laptop does when I connect to the internet via a network, my desktop does it every few hours, and I can alway mannually apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

  21. Re:what bout a real car sim on X-Plane - An Obsession For Realism · · Score: 1

    id like to see a real true car driving learning sim gta3 quality but road rules accurate .

    I live in Greece, GTA3 is road rules accurate!

  22. Re:Outcomes of the SCO trial on Torvalds Says Linux IP Is Sound · · Score: 1

    The latest and greatest 386 with a 320MB SCSI is now up and running!

  23. Re:Whew on Torvalds Says Linux IP Is Sound · · Score: 1

    Yeah, a friend at uni lived about 2 miles away, and didnt know anything about it until he read it in the news :)

  24. Re:Whew on Torvalds Says Linux IP Is Sound · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you misinterperted the title. It really means that Linux IP consists of variations in air pressure.

    IP and air, then surely you'd need something like RFC 1149

  25. Re:Outcomes of the SCO trial on Torvalds Says Linux IP Is Sound · · Score: 4, Interesting

    you'll have to find obscure sites and download the latest kernel before it gets locked down.

    What? /usr/src? 6 versions of the 2.4 kernel on 3 different boxes, not to mention tons of CD's I've collected over the years. But yes, you are right about reputation.

    I thought that linux would simply have the offending code removed - the rest of the code is GPL's and I could release "isoroxix" tomorrow with the same non-sco code. Linux wont go away, and even if it did there's always HURD :D. Moving in on the desktop might take a little longer though.